Senate swiftly solves ASUO funding conflict
■The availability of ASUO
funds looked problematic at
Wednesday night’s hearing
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
Sometimes all it takes is a little
break to figure things out.
That’s exactly what happened
during the ASUO Student Senate
meeting Wednesday night, as an
issue that had
been gather
ing heat was
resolved
shortly after a
five-minute
recess.
Senate
turned down
the ASUO
Executive’s
special re
quest for
$900, determining that the ASUO
could obtain the necessary funds
elsewhere.
When the ASUO requested the
Student
Senate
money from surplus for “Weaving
New Beginnings,” an Oct. 24 re
ception for students and faculty of
color, Senate President Peter Watts
made a forceful point: The ASUO
has more than $10,000 in its fund
raising account.
Why then, Watts asked, couldn’t
the ASUO cover the expense?
ASUO International Student
Advocate Daniel Valle, who
brought the request to Senate, ex
plained that response from student
groups was not as great as he had
expected, so the donations for the
event were less than sufficient.
As he understood it, Senate was
his last resort.
Jumping in, ASUO Vice Presi
dent Holly Magner said she
thought the fund-raising money,
much of which the ASUO made
during the Street Fair last week,
was untouchable until January. Of
the remaining $3,000, Magner said
she believed the ASUO would use
roughly $2,000 of it when sending
students to a Northwest Leader
ship Conference later this year.
Watts, however, said that ASUO
President Jay Breslow told him he
would be coming to Senate for the
conference money.
As Watts reiterated and several
senators agreed, the purpose of the
ii The ASUO Exec...[has]
thousands of dollars in
fund raising. Our mission
really isn’t to give money
to wealthy groups that
don't really need it.
Peter Watts
Senate president
Senate is to be a last resort when
groups have nowhere else to turn.
“The ASUO Exec ... [has] thou
sands of dollars in fund raising,”
Watts said. “Our mission really is
n’t to give money to wealthy
groups that don’t really need it.” ”
After a vote splitting the Senate
in half — nine in favor and nine
opposed — and Magner being
forced to abstain because of her in
volvement with the ASUO, the
Senate called a recess.
During the break, Magner con
tacted ASUO Accounting Coordi
nator Jennifer Creighton-Niewert
to ask if the ASUO could provide
the necessary funds for the event.
Returning to the meeting, Magn
er announced it could.
Aside from this debate, the Sen
ate denied an ASUO Conflict Res
olution Services request asking
that a merit increase be issued to
one of its employees.
CRS asked that 49 cents be
added onto the hourly rate of a
part-time office assistant, starting
retroactively in September and
moving on after that. A mandatory
2 percent pay increase happens
every May.
As a split-funded group, CRS re
ceives money from both the ASUO
and from the Office of Student
Life; the increase on OSL’s part
had already been approved.
The request — arguing that the
employee had taken on consider
ably more work since she returned
this fall — was denied on the basis
that the increase was an issue best
left to the Programs Finance Com
mittee during the budget process
next January.
The only special request granted
Wednesday night went to cover
technical aspects of the Universi
ty’s upcoming Homecoming Ball,
“Twilight on the Delta,” which
will take place Friday night in the
EMU Ballroom.
Senate decided to give itself
guidelines about how much sur
plus money it can spend each term
throughout the year. Officially, it
set aside $40,000 each for fall and
winter terms, leaving $59,320 for
spring.
“It’s more of a thing to keep us
fiscally responsible ... so that we
don’t have a surplus shortage
when it comes to next spring,”
Senate. Greg Zimel said.
Yugoslavia
continued from page 1A
written a book about his discover
ies, entitled, “To Kill A Nation.”
Parenti, a graduate of Yale Uni
versity and resident of Berkeley,
Calif., spoke at the University in
conjunction with a photography
exhibit in the Adell McMillan Art
Gallery, which depicted a war-torn
Yugoslavia during 11 weeks of
NATO bombing.
Before the speech, many people
gazed at the images of collapsed
buildings and inhabitants digging
for their possessions amidst the
rubble.
One observer, University com
puter science doctorate student
Gerd Kortuem, said he lived in
Germany several years ago, and it
was hard to fathom the destruction
that occurred in a country so near
his own.
“It’s strange to see people
dressed like me involved in a war,”
Kortuem said, adding that he was
eager to hear Parenti’s eyewitness
accounts of conditions in the coun
try. He said the American media
hasn’t released a lot of critical in
formation about the region’s strug
gles, and hoped an alternate view
point would shed some light.
Another University student, pre
psychology major Kerry Broderic,
said she was attending the lecture
merely to learn.
“All the destruction Broder
ic said as she looked at the graphic
images. “I looked at the exhibit to
day and heard there was a lecture
this evening. I had to attend.”
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